vSphere 5.5 Web Client Workflows – Configure Software iSCSI

In our last article, we went through the workflow to add each host to our Distributed Virtual Switch, as well as adding the requisite VMkernel ports for each host. In this article, we’ll build upon that as we configure software iSCSI on our hosts.

Add the Software iSCSI Adapter

1. In the vSphere Web Client Home page, click on the Host and Clusters icon.

5. You should now see the software iSCSI adapter, named vmhba33 or something similar.

Configure Network Adapters

Since we already added and configured the VMkernel adapters in an earlier article, there’s only one thing we need to do here – set each iSCSI distributed port group to use only a single uplink. Since this is the same procedure for both distributed port groups, I’ll only show it once.

1. In the vSphere Web Client Home page, click on the Networking icon.

2. Right-click on iSCSI1 (1), then click Edit Settings (2).

3. Click Teaming and failover, then move all uplinks but one into Unused uplinks. In this case, iSCSI1 will have Uplink 3 and iSCSI2 will have Uplink 4. Click OK.